Egg-beater.



W H. DUNNING.

'EGG HEATER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 19, 19'14.

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WARREN H. DUNN IN G, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOB T0 DOVER STAMP- ING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF PORTLAND, .MAINE, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

EGG-BEATEB.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented Feb. 12, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WARREN H. DUNNING, of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Egg-Beaters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates especially to that class of egg heaters now well known in the trade as the Dover egg heater, '5. 6., one having one or more rotatable floats supported on a frame and connected by suitable gearing with a crank handle by which the float or floats are rotated,

It consists in an egg beater having a base plate so that the heater will have a stable foundation on which it may stand either in the bowl while in use or when taken from the bowl on the table or shelf. This base plate is preferably of a diameter such as to serve as more or less of a protection to the floats as will be described below.

My invention wiil be understood by reference to the drawings in which- Figure l is a side elevation of an egg heater embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a detail of the bottom plate in lan.

Figs; 3 and 4 are sectional details taken at right angles to each other across the plate showing the connection of the frame.

A is a casting having at one end the handle 13 and at the other a crossbar a through which the upper end of the frame C passes. D is a crown gear carrying a crank handle (Z. This gear D is attached to the casting A by a rivet a so that it is free to turn.

The wire frame as shown is in the form of a loop, the upper ends of which pass through this crossbar a andinto appropriate openings in the socket piece of which forms part of the casting. On the upper ends of the wire frame are mounted pinions 0, 0 which mesh, and one of which'meshes with the gear D. An idler pinion 0 supported in the upper part of the casting steadies th 'ear D. a From each pinion 0, c depends a float E of usual character which as usual in this type of beater is perforated at its lower end, the wire C running through the perforation and serving as a bearing for the lower end of each float,

To the lower portion of the loop of the frame wire C is attached by electric welding or otherwise a base plate F. As shown the plate F is circular and slightly concave on its under surface. It is also perforated as at 7. To attach the frame C thereto a recess or indentation f is made in the top of the plate F in which the lower portion of the frame C is set and welded. As shown the diameter of the plate F is such that it projects farther from the axis of the frame than do the floats in their rotation so that if the base plate can enter the neck of a vessel the floats can enter and can be operated therein without injury or engagement with the side walls thereof.

The advantages of this structure will appeal to the user of egg heaters. It is well known that with the ordinary egg beater the bottom (being rounded and the floats being in motion) serves as a very unstable support so that in a round bottom bowl the heater is apt to slip about and the application of downward pressure does not help to steady it, but on the contrary increases its instability or rather its tendency to slip about. Moreover when the heater is taken from the bowl it must be laid flat on the table or a dish or leaned against the wall.

My heater described above stands alone on the table or in the bowl; the floats are protected as above described, and the perforations allow the base plate to drain when the beater is lifted from the bowl. The frame is thus made a firm and stable structure which will stand alone and to which more or less pressure may be applied at the handle to hold it steady, instead of one having an insecurefooting. The shape of the base plate may be different from that shown if thought best so long as it will answer its purpose of affording a firm base for the beater. Its mode of attachment to the frame may also be different and yet be within the scope of my invention. As shown the heater is so attached as to be easily kept clean so that it is as sanitary as the heaters now in use.

Vhat I claim as my invention is A device of the kind described comprising a plate, frame members extending upward from, and attached to said plate, one on each side of the center thereof, whereby pressure delivered to said frame members will be distributed on. both sides of the center of said plate and at a plurality of points thereon, diameter ofysaid plate: being greater in all a casting mounted on the upper end of said directions than the combined diameter of frame members comprising a handle by said floats.

which the device may be held and a gear WARREN H; DUNNING. mechanism, floats located one on each frame Witnesses: i f j 7 member, and means for rotating said floats AGNES F. How, connected with said gear mechanismyithe ELISHA L. How.

'" Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

